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Resolve this issue. this nightmare was created by the congress with the understanding that it will never happen. >> mainly because a lot of people probably expected there would be a president romney and things would be different now than president obama when the sequester cuts hit. all of us that have a checkbook know we have to be able to take in enough money that goes out. so we cant balance our books at home if we are not throwing in enough money that we are spending. do democrats need to rea...

The difference between those deals and the sequester is the sequester there is no discretion. we cant say first responders are valuable thing and we cut them and go deep into farm subsidies. we have to do everything same across the board. so you get very stupid cuts in very important parts of federal spending like first responders. >> when we talk about entitlement issues here with medicare and medicaid and social security they are protected with the sequester cuts. you wrote the taxes paid and ...

Increases from spending cuts. now you hear republicans saying no more tax increases. were not going to raise new revenue without significant tax reform. harry reid says were not going to cut entitlements without significant new revenue. those things now are totally decoupled. those were the ingredients of a grand bargain. that leaves the white house unable to substitute anything for the sequester cuts. they have no play right now, except to say gloom and doom, the sequester cuts would be a disas...

Capitol hill with less than two weeks before the first round of sequester cuts set to kick in. but is congress feeling the pressure? lets bring it our presidents day gaggle, former spokesman, and former minnesota congressman, mark kennedy, who is director of gws graduate school of political management and hes also part of the fix the debt campaign. congressman, nice to see you. so let me start with sequester. the weekend is still being filled with who started it rather than whos going to solve i...

Families earning less than $10,000 less annually. the presidents proposal is aimed at families at or below 200% of poverty. that brings me back to the number seven. right now, for every single dollar that the federal government spends on the nations kids, the government is spending $7 on our elderly. taking into account the sequester cuts looming march 1st will determine whether they are available to make the presidents proposal reality. thats next. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell he...

Workers. i question whether these microissues really appraisal to the macro concerns of the public. >> i was reading several articles and legislative director under president clinton for one, pa trick griffin, he equated the on the road sales pitch to shouting in the forest because he says there is no clear path to when we are going to get to the issues that he is addressing. you seem to be saying a similar thing? >> i think the president is a good speaker but for example he is raling against th...

Do, in the potential sequester cuts, which ought to be leveraged to try to protect some of those districts, although this hasnt gotten a lot of attention. i think as we move forward and these cuts kick in, and most people do think that the sequester cuts are going to take effect, i think youll start to see some of the information bubble up as the two parties finally get together and try to negotiate some kind of more reasonable series of cuts that wont have quite the economic damage. >> that see...

The fat out of the pentagon that im willing to do this. we are never again going to get to cut the pentagon back. the pentagon hasnt had any significant cuts for 30 years. >> josh green, is that the political equivalent of a liger, a lion and tiger combined to make an animal we have never seen before. rand paul and howard dean agreeing that the sequester should go through because, hey, defense -- >> hadnt occurred to me in quite those terms, but, yes, i suppose it could be a liger. >> there have...

>> i think its going to be tough, chris. i think what youre seeing right now between the house and the republicans is a political game of chicken. they are both coming down the road at 65 miles an hour. if the other guy could swerve a little bit, we would avoid this cliff. were at that same place again. i think that these sequester cuts go into effect. i was talking to a moderate senate democratic senator the other day who said, you know, it might be june before people start to really feel the e...

Senator patti murphy of washington is working on a alternative to replace the 85 some order billion cuts that would take place this year. it amounts to $60 billion in new taxes and $60 billion in spending. republicans have pronounced the patti murray idea dead on arrival and the g.o.p. makes the point in the last couple of months they already approved $650 billion in tax hikes when in fact the obvious problem in deficit spending is the word spending, jon. jon: $85 billion, so, if that is what se...